Abstract: A mechanical hammer for sculptors, comprising a body (1) suitable for being handled, a striking element (5) that slidingly engages in the body (1); a tool (6) releasably engaging with a first end of said striking element (5) accessible from the exterior of the body (1); a rotating element (10) that pivotally engages in the body (1) having a first end connected to rotating drive means located at the exterior of the body (1); cooperating means provided at the second end of the striking element (5) and of the rotating element (10), both inside the body (1), for transforming the rotating motion of the rotating element (10) into a reciprocating motion of the striking element (5) under to load through the tool (6).

Abstract: The invention pertains to a hydraulic rotary drive for the rotating rod assembly of a drilling machine which contains at least two hydraulic motors (1-3) with the motor shafts (34-36) that are connected to a common output shaft (11) by means of a gear, with a clutch (4-6) being arranged between the motor shaft (34-36) of each hydraulic motor (1-3) and the gear such that the rotational movement of each hydraulic motor (1-3) can be disengaged from the rotational movement of the output shaft (11). The invention aims to develop a highly variable rotary drive for ground and rock drilling machines.

Abstract: A drill bit, the frame of which comprises a front section with protrusions. A set of first rear teeth is arranged at the front section, preferably at the rear part of the protrusions. The set of first rear teeth broadens a drilled hole when the drill is reversed.

Abstract: A car cam and locking roller locking structure that opens and closes elevator doors so that the lateral sliding of the car will not affect the opening of the doors.

Abstract: A drum brake device is disclosed to provide a smooth returning of the brake shoe when the service brake is operated before the vehicle starts on a slope, in which a circumferential edge of the linings 6, 6 of the brake shoes 2, 3 at the service brake actuator 8 side nearest the first adjacent ends is located on a line of action B of the service brake actuator 8 or at a point closer to the anchor than the line.

Abstract: For the disc brake in which an aluminum alloy disc rotor is used, a back plate for a brake pad is molded from heat-resistant short fibers and a heat-resistant resin. For the heat-resistant short fibers, glass fibers having a length of 10 mm or less are used, and are incorporated at 50 wt. % or more to secure the strength.

Abstract: A system for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle, in which a pressure supply time to complete removal of the clutch-stroke play is determined based on the input shaft rotational speed. And a residual oil amount in the clutch is estimated and the time is corrected by the residual oil amount. The preparatory pressure to be supplied within the time is also determined based on the input shaft rotational speed and the ATF temperature. With this, it becomes possible to effect the clutch-stroke play removal within a less variant time and with a good response, thereby decreasing the shift shock effectively so as to improve the feeling of the vehicle occupant.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for damping torsional vibrations having at least two relatively rotatable elements which can rotate against a torsion vibration damper mounted between same.

Abstract: In order to transport a fiber strand to be pneumatically condensed over a suction slit of a condensing zone of a spinning machine, a transport belt is provided which comprises, at least in the effective area of the suction slit, a porous area. The porous area can, for example, be created by dissolving granulate components from a fine-grained granulate blend.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an electronic equipment with comparative ease of freely choosing the push-button location and with satisfactory operability of the push-button device.

Abstract: An intermediate displacement board (120) composed of a metal plate is arranged on a printed circuit board (110) having electrode patterns (E1-E7) and then a strain generative body (130) composed of silicon rubber is arranged on top thereof. Then, the arrangement is fixed to the printed circuit board (110) with attachments (140). Depressing a displacement portion (133) causes a connecting portion (132) to be deflected and an electrode (F0) to be brought into contact with the electrodes (E1, E2) to make them conductive, thereby allowing the pushbutton switch to be turned ON. Depressing further the displacement portion (133) causes an elastic deformation portion (134) to be elastically deformed and crushed and the intermediate displacement board (120) to be pushed downward. The capacitance of capacitors (C3-C7), which are constituted by the electrodes (E3-E7) and the intermediate displacement board (120), are varied according to the depression of the intermediate displacement board (120).

Abstract: A flexible book-like storage receptacle for a compact disc and the printed material that typically accompanies such compact discs. The storage receptacle includes a number of clear, pliable panels movable between an open position for easy access to the contents, and a closed position for storage. The storage receptacle includes layered sidewalls designed as pockets for receiving printed material, as well as for providing support to the compact disc. In addition, the receptacle includes one of a number of different retention post structures to securely hold the compact disc in place. Variations for the retention post include a compressible core, a compressible rectangle, a molded cradle, and strategically placed compressible stoppers. Attached to the perimeter of each of the panels of the receptacle is a flexible magnetic seal that serves to maintain the package in a closed position until it is intentionally forced apart to access the stored items.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus for screening compound libraries using frontal chromatography in combination with mass spectrometry to identify and rank those members of the library that bind to a target receptor. The apparatus of this invention also permit a compound library to be rapidly screened to determine if any member of the library has an affinity for the target receptor as measured by a pre-selected indicator compound.

Abstract: An electro-regenerating type apparatus for producing deionized water, which comprises an electrodialyzer having cation exchange membranes and anion exchange membranes alternately arranged between an anode compartment provided with an anode and a cathode compartment provided with a cathode, demineralizing compartments compartmentalized with the anion exchange membranes on the anode side and compartmentalized with the cation exchange membranes on the cathode side, and concentrating compartments compartmentalized with the cation exchange membranes on the anode side and compartmentalized with the anion exchange membranes on the cathode side, the electrodialyzer having ion exchangers accommodated in the demineralizing compartments, wherein a porous anion exchanger layer having a porosity of from 20 to 95%, a maximum pore size of from 0.01 to 500 &mgr;m and a thickness of at least five times the maximum pore size and from 10 &mgr;m to 10 mm, is provided on the anode side of each anion exchange membrane.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method are presented for the mechanical removal of moisture from a filter cake. Differential pressure causes the flow of a treatment fluid through the filter cake. The treatment fluid displaces liquid originally present in the filter cake to preent cracking of the filter cake.

Abstract: A storage rack for compactly holding elongated items such as garden tools, brooms, and the like. The rack is preferably one piece and uses the depth out away from the wall to hold multiple items. In one embodiment, the rack has an upper leg and a lower leg extending from the surface on which it is supported so as to support the items at two places to hold them securely in place. A second embodiment includes only one leg extending from the vertical surface on which it is supported. The slots in the one leg rack are shaped so as to support items securely. Both embodiments easily receive and release the items individually without having to remove any of the other items.

Abstract: A toothbrush holder for a toothbrush having an enlarged handle, for example a battery operated toothbrush, is provided which comprises at least one support aperture, the or each support aperture being expandable or has at least part thereof restricted in a lateral dimension compared to a width of the enlarged handle. The support aperture is suitable to support the toothbrush vertically with a bristle-end suspended downward therefrom and spaced from a lower drainage surface. The holder may also comprise a locating aperture to locate the toothbrush within the support aperture. In one embodiment, the holder comprises a housing having a removable wall with at least one support aperture for a toothbrush having an enlarged handle on one surface of the wall and preferably at least one retainer for retaining a conventional toothbrush on an opposite surface of the wall.

Abstract: A method is provided for processing mineral-insulated conduits, in particular for stripping the insulation from and/or severing mineral-insulated conduits, wherein a mineral-insulated conduit is constructed of at least one wire or band-shaped electrical conductor, a mineral powder and a metallic sheath tube having a wall thickness a. The problem arises, in reference to the known disadvantages of the prior art, to make available an improved method for processing mineral-insulated conduits. This problem is solved by a method where the sheath tube is processed on at least one radial processing line using laser cutting, and starting from the radial processing line, the sheath tube is processed on at least one axial processing line using laser cutting. The mineral-insulated conduit is then treated with ultrasound.

Abstract: There is disclosed a ceramic heating jig consisting of a susceptor 2 on which a work to be heated is placed, a ceramic heater 3 for heating the susceptor and at least one heat shielding plate 4 for shielding heat of the ceramic heater wherein the susceptor and the heat shielding plate are located so that each of them is located across the ceramic heater each leaving a certain space therefrom, a thickness of the susceptor is 0.5 m to 5 mm, a thickness of the ceramic heater is 0.5 mm to 3 mm, a thickness of the heat shielding plate is 0.5 mm to 3 mm. Preferably, an interval between the members is 0.5 mm to 10 mm, and the members are elastically held as an integration by the elastic means 6 and the restraint means 7. There can be provided a ceramic heating jig wherein defects such as thermal deformation, breakage or the like of the susceptor or the like are hardly caused, temperature can be raised or lowered rapidly, and flatness of a susceptor can be kept even at high temperature.

Abstract: An improved heating unit (10) used in a cooktop (12). Operation of the heating unit is by a controller (16). An electric current is applied to a composition heating element (20). The heating element is supported on a cake (24) of insulation material installed in a pan (22) located beneath a glasstop (14) of the cooktop. A thermal sensor (28) senses the temperature of the heating element and supplies an indication of the heating element temperature to the controller which changes the amount of current supplied to the heating element as a function of the sensed temperature.

Abstract: The present invention involves coatings deposited on a substrate including a layer having a selected resistivity. The resistive layer can serve as a heat source in a variety of applications and can be fabricated using an arc plasma spraying procedure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a convection fan control method of a microwave oven which is capable of changing discharge direction of the air heated by a heater to a heating object by controlling rotation direction of a convection fan in accordance with types of a dish comprising a cooking time setting process for selecting a dish type of a heating object and setting cooking time, a rotation direction setting process for setting rotating direction of a fan motor which is capable of rotating and reverse-rotating, a fan motor operating process for operating the fan motor in accordance with the set rotating direction, a fan operating process for rotating a fan by the operating of the fan motor, and a cooking process for cooking the heating object for the select cooking time by operating of a heater.

Abstract: The invention discloses a microwave off-gas system in which microwave energy is used to treat gaseous waste. A treatment chamber is used to remediate off-gases from an emission source by passing the off-gases through a susceptor matrix, the matrix being exposed to microwave radiation. The microwave radiation and elevated temperatures within the combustion chamber provide for significant reductions in the qualitative and quantitative emissions of the gas waste stream.

Abstract: A method and apparatus heats ultrapure water using microwaves. Chambers such as pipes containing the water are capable of admitting microwaves to the water, allowing the microwaves to heat the water. The pipes may be made of inert material such as PVDF or quartz that will not introduce contamination into the water.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic cooking of a microwave oven, in particular to an automatic cooking compensation apparatus of a microwave oven and a method thereof which is capable of solving a port number restriction problem of a microcomputer when data compensation corresponding to automatic cooking time is performed. The present invention can have data variable port as same as line number of a key matrix by using the data variable port for the cooking time compensation in conjunction with key input ports, accordingly the cooking data can be compensated as same as the number of line.

Abstract: A plastic container comprises a bottom wall, a side wall extending upwardly and laterally outwardly from the bottom wall, and an undulating rim extending laterally outwardly from an upper portion of the side wall. The undulating rim forms a plurality of waves extending at least partially around the upper portion of the side wall. Each wave forms a crest and a trough that are generally perpendicular to an adjacent section of the upper portion of the side wall. In response to exerting a tensile load on the rim, the undulating rim acts like an accordion or spring and effectively increases the perimeter along an outer trimmed edge of the rim. In particular, the waves allow the rim to flatten, thereby reducing the hoop stress generated by the tensile load. By relieving the hoop stress on the outer trimmed edge of the rim, the tendency of the rim to crack or break is minimized.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing container of the squeeze bottle type has a low center of gravity liquid bottle with a hemispherical base portion and a frusto-conical neck portion. A spout assembly is coupled to an upper end of the neck portion for dispensing liquid when a deformable bottom wall of the base portion of the bottle is flexed. The spout assembly includes a bottle cap with a through bore in which a flexible dispensing tube is slidably extensible and retractable to dispense liquid, such as lubricating oil, into locations that would otherwise be inaccessible. A wiper element in the bottle cap associated with the through bore provides a liquid impervious seal between the bottle cap and the tube and ensures that excess liquid on the outer surface of the tube is scraped off as the tube is extended. A nozzle is connected to a distal end of the tube and a pop-up sealing cap is slidable back and forth over the nozzle to selectively open and close a dispensing hole in the pop-up cap.

Abstract: A metal fixing ring is disclosed, which is capable of being screwed for fixing a dispensing device, such as a pump or a valve, on a container comprising a neck and containing a product to be dispensed. The metal fixing ring, which comprises an internal thread co-operating with an external thread provided on the container neck, further comprises a plastic material coating on the internal surface that comprises the internal thread.

Abstract: A harness attached to or adapted to be attached to a golf bag to be positioned about the shoulders and neck of the user. The apparatus is adapted to allow the golf bag to be adjusted to balance the weight of the golf bag and golf clubs to allow the user to walk while carrying the golf clubs.

Abstract: When a through-the-wall ATM which is expected to be installed into a wall having a thickness of 6 inches or so, is attempted to be installed into a relatively thick wall having a thickness of 13 inches or so, a carrier unit is attached to a BDU, a EDU, and so on in the ATM to carry bills and deposit envelopes. This carrier unit enables the facade of the ATM to be separated from the BDU, etc., by a desired distance, and provides the ATM with an improved operability.

Abstract: A portable data collection device including an imaging assembly including a two dimensional (2D) photosensor array. The imaging assembly is selectively actuatable with a first trigger for reading a target dataform in the imaging assembly's target area and actuatable with a second trigger for capturing a image of the target object in the target area. The device also includes an illumination assembly including an circuit board assembly supporting illumination and targeting light emitting diodes and a lens array or panel positioned adjacent the circuit board assembly for focusing an even pattern of illumination on the target area and generating a crosshair illumination pattern for aiming the device at the target dataform. The device further includes an optic assembly for focusing reflected illumination from the target area onto the two dimensional photo sensor array.

Abstract: A temperature control device for a constant temperature chiller unit or a vending machine is provided. Thermal medium fluid such as water in the chiller unit is accurately controlled under starting mode, heating mode and cooling mode. Thermal medium fluid such as air in the vending machine is conveniently controlled in winter mode and summer mode. In the device, a heat exchanger is interposed within a compression circuit, and a bypass circuit is disposed at the downstream side of a pump so that through the bypass circuit thermal medium fluid receives heat from the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A double angle rotospray dispenser including: (a) a rotatable shaft; and (b) a dispensing tip connected to a free end of the rotatable shaft. The dispensing tip includes: (i) a first angled surface extending outwardly from the shaft axis; (ii) a second opposing angled surface connected to the first angled surface and extending inwardly towards the shaft axis; and (iii) a terminal surface located at a bottom end of the dispensing tip, adjacent to the second opposing angled surface.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus of the invention includes a head having a nozzle, and a recovering unit that can recover a suitable viscosity of liquid in the nozzle from an increased viscosity thereof. A pressure-generating unit can change a pressure of liquid in the nozzle in order to jet a drop of the liquid from the nozzle, based on jetting data. An obtaining unit can obtain minimum-volume information of the drop of the liquid to be jetted from the nozzle by the pressure-generating unit. A controller can control the recovering unit, based on the minimum-volume information obtained by the obtaining unit.

Abstract: This invention provides an attachment which may be secured to the closure of the housing for an irrigation outlet, the attachment including a plastics disc having a display surface for displaying information the disc being securable to the irrigation outlet.

Abstract: A dry particulate dispersion system includes a fluidized bed of particulate material, an intake device within the fluidized bed, and a controllable source of supplemental gas connected to the intake device. The amount of supplemental gas supplied to the intake device controls the amount of suspended particulate material withdrawn through the intake device. The intake device may be coupled to a venturi eductor, which then sucks the supplemental gas and fluidized particulate material out of the fluidized bed and entrains it in a stream of pressurized gas flowing to a dispersion apparatus, such as a spray nozzle.

Abstract: A vehicular surface washer spray system having at least one washer fluid reservoir and a sprayer, including a device for pumping the washer fluid from the reservoir to said sprayer. The sprayer is longitudinally disposed substantially along the periphery of the surface of a vehicle to be sprayed, and substantially hidden from external view, and includes a plurality of spaced openings longitudinally disposed and selectively positioned in the sprayer and angled toward the vehicle surface such that the washer fluid is selectively discharged through the openings in the sprayer and onto a selected region of the vehicle surface. In addition, the system herein provides that the spray apparatus is integrated in the washer fluid reservoir and designed so that no part thereof protrudes above the vehicle hood.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nozzle capable of easily removing an aspiration object (residual solidified object) and an aspirator equipped with such a nozzle. This nozzle is connected to the aspirator and is used to aspirate the aspiration object. The nozzle comprises: a nozzle body including an opening, which can be opposed to a surface with the residual aspiration object, and a suction port for aspirating the aspiration object; and a liquid injection mechanism, which is provided at the nozzle body, for ejecting liquid toward the aspiration object.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided formed of a pair of opposed, spring urged comb members that is intended to slip over the area subject to kinking and keeps it in a straight position to allow water to flow.

Abstract: In order to obtain a simple, inexpensive and low-maintenance monitoring device for controlling the setting width of individual teeth of saw blades or belt-saw blades, in particular for controlling the setting result of a setting machine the present invention invisages that the monitoring device comprises at least one photo-detector whose light beam at least partly runs through one or both regions laterally next to the running-past saw blade or belt-saw blade, into said regions the set teeth project.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the detection of electromagnetic radiation comprising at least two elementary detectors (Dij), each elementary detector (Dij) comprising a first conductive terminal (pija) and a second conductive terminal (pijb) for sampling an electric signal representative of the detected radiation. The detection device incorporates first means (Iija) for connecting or disconnecting a first conductive terminal of the elementary detector (pija) with respect to a first input terminal of a processing circuit and second means (Iijb) for connecting or disconnecting a second conductive terminal (pijb) of the detector (Dij) with respect to a second input terminal of the processing circuit (Tj).

Abstract: A fluid control valve with a butterfly-type flow control element, with high operating reliability, comprising a valve body which is crossed by a passage with an inlet and an outlet which can be connected to two branches of a duct for a fluid to be controlled by means of the valve. The valve body accommodates, in an intermediate region of the passage, a butterfly-type flow control element which can be actuated in order to open or close the passage. The valve body supports, in the intermediate region of the passage, an annular gasket which can be engaged by the flow control element in the closure position. The valve body is provided in at least two parts which are mutually coupled at the region that is occupied by the annular gasket and lock the annular gasket between the parts in a mutual coupling position.

Abstract: Scaly silica particles having a laminated structure, consisting essentially of secondary particles of foliar silica, each formed by a plurality of flaky primary particles of scaly silica which are overlaid one on another and aligned face-to-face in parallel with one another, said secondary particles being present independent of one another.

Abstract: To obtain a monomer having a large torsion force, to obtain a liquid crystal polymer which is excellent in a film-forming property, can easily control a helical pitch of a cholesteric phase, can form a grandjean orientation in a good monodomain state by an orientation treatment in a short time such as few minutes, and can stably fix it in a glass state, and to obtain an optical element having a circular dichroism, represented by the following formula (a), comprising a solidified product of the liquid crystal polymer, which is thin and light, is hard to change the oriented state such as pitch, etc., at a practical temperature, and has excellent durability and storage stability.

Abstract: It has been discovered that the polymerization of vinyl aromatic compounds, such as styrene, may be inhibited by the addition of a composition that contains an alkyl-dihydroxyarene, a hydrogen transfer agent, and a stable nitroxide. In another, preferred embodiment of the invention, these three components are blended in an organic amine.

Abstract: The semiconducting ceramic material of the present invention containing BaTiO3 and having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance is endowed with high withstand voltage. In the semiconducting ceramic material, a boundary temperature defined at the boundary between a first temperature range and a second temperature range is 180° C. or more (e.g., 370° C.) higher than the Curie temperature, wherein the first temperature range is higher than the Curie temperature and the ceramic material has a positive temperature coefficient of resistance in the range, and the second temperature range is higher than the first temperature range and the ceramic material has a negative temperature coefficient of resistance in the range.

Abstract: Copper particle clusters constituting a powder suitable for making a conductive paste are provided that are individually composed of not fewer than two and not more than 20 unit particles joined through neck portions. A conductive paste made from the powder is excellent in conductivity. A conductive filler for conductive paste is provided that consists essentially of a mixture of copper particle clusters A individually composed of two or more unit particles joined through neck portions and spherical metallic particles B of smaller diameter than the particles A. A conductive paste made from the filler is low in viscosity and excellent in conductivity.

Abstract: UV-absorbers of the 4-alkoxy-2-hydroxyphenyl-s-triazine type are incorporated in a cellulose triacetate film. Such an UV-cut off film can be used advantageously, amongst others, as protective sheet for a polarizer in a Liquid Crystal Display.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device capable of increasing the operational speed and reducing the power consumption. The semiconductor device includes an n-channel field effect transistor and a p-channel field effect transistor which are provided on a common base-substrate. A surface region, in which the n-channel field effect transistor is provided, of the base-substrate includes: a silicon substrate; a buffer layer formed on the silicon substrate, the buffer layer being made from a silicon-germanium compound having a germanium concentration gradually increased toward an upper surface of the buffer layer; a relax layer formed on the buffer layer, the relax layer being made from a silicon-germanium compound having a germanium concentration nearly equal to that of a surface portion of the buffer layer; and a silicon layer formed on the relax layer. Source/drain regions are formed in the silicon layer.

Abstract: Comparing with, for example, a semiconductor device having the configuration in which the logic circuit and the DRAM cell circuit are consolidated, a semiconductor device in which an analog capacity element is installed without substantially increasing the number of the steps is provided.